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Rorty On Mind

Posted on:2013-08-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q W GeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374967238Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Rorty as a representative of contemporary pragmatism and postmodernism, its main thinking interest is that the critique of traditional philosophy and its critique of traditional philosophy while he investigated the history of the philosophy of the "heart" as a starting point. Examine Plato, Descartes, mental philosopher’s analysis of physical and mental problems, he use to feel this special psychological matters to digestion ontological fissure, in order to deconstruct the theoretical premise of the traditional philosophy.Pavarotti in-depth analysis, I feel the important role played by the concept of change of heart in Descartes, and Descartes’philosophy itself contains three theoretical dilemma:private knowledge of how it might? Even if it is possible, then the incommensurability between the other main embodied? How to communicate as well as two entities? Behavior philosopher mind the characteristics attributed to the tendency for behavior, but did not deal with how the short-term psychological issues (such as feeling) how classified. The materialist philosophers have argued that the state of mind is only the neutral state. This topic neutral analysis but does not solve the problem of the alleged identity standards.Finally, Rorty plantar neurological status by comparing with human reports of feeling of pain concluded that the philosophical concepts about the heart is only We agree with certain specialized philosophical language the tendency of the game. We should abandon the two together, and brought this problem to abandon the physical and mental identity.The author believes that Rorty in the inspection of the heart, reflects the critique of essentialism, philosophical uncertainty to seek negation. He stressed that the philosophical problem is just a language problem, but the language is accidental.
Keywords/Search Tags:The relation between the mind and the body, The mentalThe physical, Feeling
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